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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. – Chinese Proverb

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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. – Chinese Proverb

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Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. – Chinese Proverb

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Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. – Clarence Darrow

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. – Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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